Best and worst chief executives. We hear from author rosen, Michael Gearhart and from Robert Strauss. His book is worst president ever about james buchanan. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens, and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i now want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and coll
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] cspan has a mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission which i want you to reside along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [applause] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. Let us launch it at the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, b
Constitutional vision, you see Ronald Reagan aspiring to repeal the new deal republic through transformative Supreme Court appointments. Bruce ackerson was here. He argued that had reagan succeeded in his appointment of a rubber board, he would have been as great a president as roosevelt and lincoln because he would have been led to a new republic. With one more Supreme Court appointment, a republican president might achieve the resurrection of the republic. It would be just as transformative as the transformations of washington, lincoln and roosevelt. It is wanted to add one quick thing to that. I just wanted to add one quick thing to that. Often times, people say, about lincoln, he did not really do anything before he became president. I think one reason why lincoln gets elected is because the people cared about in the 19th century is what they still care about now. They care about vision. They care much less about experience than a president s judgment. Lincoln had both. Many of our
John good morning, and welcome to the brookings institution. My name is john allen. I am the president of bookings and im pleased this morning to welcome our honored guest the 19 chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and my friend, general joe dunford. General dunford has been chair of the joint chiefs of staff since 2015 and prior to that, served as our commandant of the marine corps. Generalnded all forces in afghanistan before that. Dunford and i have known each other for many years since we , were captains, in fact. And i can say with complete certainty and sincerity that he is one of the finest marines to have been minted in the modern era of the marine corps. In 1996, Lieutenant Colonel dunford would take command of the second battalion sixth marines from me at camp lejeune in north carolina. And years later in kabul we would repeat that ceremony as he took command of the war effort in afghanistan. His storied career spans more than four decades of Brilliant Service to our countr
The brookings institution. My name is john allen. I am the president of bookings and im pleased this morning to look mauer honored guest, the 19 chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and my friend, general joe dunford. Been chairford has of the joint chiefs of staff and prior to that, served as our commandant of the marine corps. They commanded all forces in afghanistan. General dunford and i have known each other for many years since we were captains, in fact. I can say with complete certainty and sincerity that he is one of the finest marines to have been minted in the modern era of the marine corps. In 1996, Lieutenant Colonel dunford would take command of the second battalion marines at camp lejeune in north carolina. Years later in kabul we would repeat that. He would take command of the war effort in afghanistan. His storied career spans more than four decades of Brilliant Service to our country and to the world. In peace and in crisis and in war. And as the u. S. Navigates multi